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Foreword It has become fashionable of late among the leftist elites to accuse the West of pilfering its treasures both physical resources and intellectual innovations from native and minority cultures. The clear moral lesson, we are to understand, is that there is nothing particularly noteworthy or exceptional about Western culture and by extension about America. Instead, we should feel deep shame that our ancestors expropriated the physical and intellectual capital of the peoples we conquered. In this timely and illuminating new pamphlet, “Stealing the West’s Cultural Heritage,” Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer addresses this lie head-on, first debunking the work of “Middle East expert” Diana Darke who claims in a recent book that some of Christian Europe’s most exquisite structures including Notre-Dame and St. Mark’s were inspired by Islamic mosques. Spencer eviscerates Darke’s claims, showing how
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To rank naval battles against one another, let s assign a pecking order among degrees of decisiveness.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Why the rise of America didn t produce a cataclysmic naval war with the supreme sea power of the day is worth mulling over. But that, as they say, is a story for another day.
Ranking battles by their importance has been a bloodsport among military historians as long as there have
been military historians. Creasy s classic
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851) set the standard for the genre.
But what makes a battle decisive? And what makes one such test of arms more important than another?
Ranking battles by their importance has been a bloodsport among military historians as long as there have
been military historians. Creasy s classic
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851) set the standard for the genre.
But what makes a battle decisive? And what makes one such test of arms more important than another?
This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
Defining the term too loosely produces howlers like a recent
US News catalogue of decisive battles of the American Civil War. By the
US News count, 45 engagements qualified as decisive during that four-year struggle alone. Zounds!